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Unsteady (song)

2015 single by X Ambassadors From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Unsteady (song)
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"Unsteady" is a ballad[3] by American rock band X Ambassadors. It was originally part of the band's second EP The Reason and was later released as the third single from the band's debut studio album, VHS, on October 13, 2015. The song has a remix version entitled "Unsteady (Erich Lee Gravity Remix)", a single for the motion picture soundtrack for the film Me Before You.[4]

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Composition

In an interview with Best New Bands frontman Sam Nelson Harris discussed the main inspiration for the song

"This song is about our parents getting divorced when we were in high school. I was a little bit uncomfortable when I decided to make the song about that… I felt like everyone’s parents get divorced. Who am I to say anything about it, it’s not a big deal? But I think precisely for that reason, I decided that was why I had to write. We have a great relationship with our parents and our stepmother. We love them so much. We wanted to really emphasize there’s a blamelessness there. These things happen. Relationships fall apart. Families fall apart. No one is to blame."

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According to the sheet music published at MusicNotes.com, the song is written in the key of B minor, with a tempo of 58 beats per minute.[6]

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Accolades

"Unsteady" was nominated for Top Rock Song at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards.[7]

Music video

Influenced by the song’s theme of divorce, the music video follows a couple at two points in their relationship: the moment they fell in love, and the moment they knew their relationship was over. The song shows how habits that may have been "fun and spontaneous" when young can turn into serious problems when they begin to affect an adult family life where children can be influenced by those choices.

The video was directed by ENDS (Zack Sekuler and Daniel Iglesias Jr.) Archived 2023-04-19 at the Wayback Machine

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